Jonathan Yuen Siu-him, not Jonathan Yuen Yee-hang, performed the encore. Just how interchangeable are the skills of a viola player and a violinist? In a concert with the Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra, ...
Casting a spell over your audience as a violin virtuoso is remarkable enough. But some musicians are real overachievers. Take Dmitry Sinkovsky, who guests with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra (SSO) ...
Maxim Vengerov joins violinists Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz, Menahem Breuer, conductor Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic for Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins in B minor. We hear the opening ...
Video recordings by single instruments and singers from the BBC Orchestras and Choirs.
When it comes to attending live concerts during the Covid-19 pandemic, one question keeps getting asked: Why bother? After all, there are many commercial recordings available, not to mention ...
If you know and like the Four Seasons, chances are you won't be disappointed with the 56th volume of the Naïve label's ongoing Vivaldi series. The selection of six concertos for two violins (RV523, ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Allan Kozinn SOME people hate Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” for pretty much the same reasons others love it: it is an exceptionally vivid example of ...